The Clearinghouse provides workforce development and welfare reform materials and information on the following topics:

accountability alcohol and substance abuse assessment business needs and partnerships case management children and family issues community colleges community development customized training disabilities

economic development education English as a second language events faith-based and community initiatives family formation and maintenance of two-parent families funding sources homelessness housing incarceration initiatives

Individual Development Accounts job coaching job development job placement job readiness training job retention job skills labor market information legislation mental health issues

mentoring micro-enterprise non-custodial parents parenting skills partnerships post-employment poverty professional development professional organizations promising practices

related research return-on-investment rural issues tax incentives, credits, and related issues technology transportation Welfare reform work experience Workforce Investment Act youth services

The Clearinghouse is divided into separate categories including:

Literature and Reports: timely and critical documents and reports, many of which are unavailable   elsewhere. Search by an alphabetic sort, or search the entire database by keyword, subject, date,   author, title, publisher, or category like those listed above;

Information on: Professional Organizations Journals

Resource Directory: lists of Federal and New York state agency programs, contacts, addresses, and, or   telephone numbers. The directory is available by submitting the form on this page;

Web Sites: a list of sites pertaining to workforce development, welfare reform, and other pertinent topics.

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